Round 84: The Kidnapping of Tiffany Jamesson

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PLAYERS: Isamu Fuwa, Quicksword Irene, Hajime Aikawa VS. Bucky Barnes, Daylight vis Lornlit, Inara Serra
LOCATION: Tycoons' Depot
GOAL: Assume and maintain custody of Tiffany Jamesson
WARNINGS: Kidnapping, attempted murder, sex work mentions
OTHER: OOC post for plotting and questions!

After traveling most of the day, the sun is starting to set when the two teams reach Tycoons' Depot. Who arrives first depends on how quickly the teams get up and organized that morning, and how hard they want to push their horses.

The active portion of the round doesn’t start until the next morning, anyway. After scouting around and making plans, everyone can enjoy a room at the Bullion Inn under the watchful eye of the Madame (for a crisp points price, of course), camp rough just outside town, or bully or bribe one of the locals into letting them borrow their home for the night. Looking around proves there are, in fact, a number of possibly empty houses around the town’s outskirts, if the players would like to brave one of those.

In the morning, it’s time to go. Tiffany Jamesson, a sixteen year old girl with a brilliant smile and auburn hair done up in ringlets, has horseback riding at nine in full-on cowgirl attire, lunch at noon and piano lessons at one in a yellow dress of frothy lace, a nap from three to four when the day is at its hottest, and then dinner with her father at six in a pretty pink affair before retiring for the night afterwards. When will the kidnappers strike? When will the protectors show their hand? The teams have three days in which to accomplish their goal. The clock is ticking.

Comments

[givemyrightarm]

"We don't exactly have a lot of options," Irene points out.

[chalicejoker]

"But there's got to be a better one than that!" Look, he is not pretending to be some helpless kid. "She's going to go out and socialize, and I don't do that."

"Probably doesn't know how," Ryo muses.

"You stay out of this."

"But I'm helping! Can pretend to be adorable puppy! Henshin!" And yes, there is now an adorable puppy wriggling around inside Hajime's shirt.

[givemyrightarm]

"Maybe you should have thought of that before you decided to skip this morning's meeting and run off to the brothel."

She's not even going to comment on the puppy. Ryo isn't a yoma, and he appears to have more sense than Hajime, so she's just going to let it lie.

After a moment, though, she relents a bit. "Besides, haven't you been hoping for a chance at battle from the moment you woke up in that jail? Well, this will give you that chance. And if that allows us to stop her kidnappers sooner - fatally or not - then so much the better."

[chalicejoker]

"I didn't run off to the--" Okay, wait, stopping himself there, that's a...technicality he probably won't be able to dig his way out of. He gives an irritated sigh. "The moment anyone gets close, they're going to know." There's a scowl. "I want a straight fight, none of this sneaking around."

[givemyrightarm]

"There aren't enough of us to keep her under guard and hunt them down. And a straight fight is unlikely to be worth the other side's while - not if they want to take her alive."

[chalicejoker]

"And they're going to notice if they see both of you and don't see me anywhere." Any excuse to not do this. Hajime scowls. "Any idiot's going to be able to tell I'm not her anyway."

[ragingwolf]

"I've got a reputation as a half decent sniper here," Fuwa says, finally deigning to approach the conversation, with a smug little smile on his face. "People who know that would expect me to keep a distance, not follow up close. Besides," he gestures to Hajime's everything. "We're about the same height. Cover up my face and I could pass for you guarding by her side."

[chalicejoker]

"Not surly enough," Ryo says with a puppy's grin.

Hajime makes a noise of irritation and ignores that remark. "Anyone who gets up close to me is going to know something's wrong anyway."